20th Anniversary of “Mutts”

In 1994, Patrick McDonnell created the comic strip MUTTS, which is syndicated by King Features and can be read daily online at Comics Kingdom. MUTTS now appears in more than 700 newspapers in 20 countries.

McDonnell has received numerous awards for this strip, including the National Cartoonists Society’s highest honor, The Reuben, for Cartoonist of the Year; five Harvey Awards for Best Comic Strip; Germany’s Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip; and the Swedish Academy of Comic Art’s Adamson Statuette.

The MUTTS cartoons have been published in 17 compilation books in the U.S. and in numerous collections throughout the world. In 2003, fine art publisher Harry N. Abrams published MUTTS: The Comic Art of Patrick McDonnell, a monograph on McDonnell’s career. In 2007, The Best of MUTTS was released containing a decade of McDonnell’s favorite strips along with insightful commentary. McDonnell has also released five children’s books since 2005, two of which were New York Times Best Sellers.